The dairy industry is changing with more companies consolidating manufacturing facilities and investing in single, larger plants. Such moves give large dairy brands the ability to modernise with the latest production technologies and provide a path for improved efficiency, viability and sustainability.
SPX provides innovative solutions to the dairy industry with brands including APV and Gerstenberg Schröder (GS). Its offerings include a comprehensive range of butter, spreads, cheese and margarine process technology. SPX has recently seen success on major projects in these areas based on its application expertise and proven ability to produce efficient, turnkey solutions.
For the production of edible fats and oils, SPX is able to provide complete crystallisation lines including tanks, pasteurisation, pumps, scraped surface heat exchangers (SSHE) and pin rotor machines which can improve operational efficiencies and offer high quality results. Technology such as the unique GS Nexus SSHE, which uses the natural refrigerant CO2, improves cooling efficiency to enable faster product crystallisation.
This creates smaller, more plentiful crystals to enhance the quality of fats and margarines. SPX Innovation Centres further support system development, offering the ability to carry out complete trials for butter and spreads production, including process line and system trials, product testing, recipe development and recipe testing – all of which can be carried out before committing to full scale production.
The market-leading technologies SPX offers for the production of butters and spreads recently led to it being awarded a major contract for the supply of processing lines in this area. SPX Innovation Centres in Denmark demonstrated the ability to replicate existing product qualities with the latest, efficient technology and, based on a drive for growth and improved efficiencies, the project will allow a major UK dairy supplier to consolidate production of products into one factory.
In cheese production SPX can provide complete cheese lines from milk retrieval to cheese storage including curd preparation and pre-pressing, pressing and acidification and brining. Its solutions offer flexible and efficient results and include technologies such as the fully automated CheeseMaster plant. The CheeseMaster is a highly flexible processing line, which can be, utilised for all types of European Pressed Cheese (EPC) including hard, semi-hard, round, rectangular, regular eyed and irregular eyed. SPX fully automated cheese lines provide high yield and consistent quality while reducing labour requirements and improving safety.
Again, the fully equipped Innovation Centres, where customers can trial their application, complement the latest cheese producing technologies from SPX and, along with global support capability, contribute significantly to successful and rapid system implementation. Included within the success SPX has recently seen is a project awarded to SPX in Australia that will result in the manufacture of over 16 cheese types and formats. It incorporates SPX pressed cheese manufacturing equipment including the fully automated CheeseMaster vats along with flexible OPD pre-pressing, SaniPress systems for use with semi-hard and hard cheese and an APV brand RackBrine water cooling and brining system. The resulting system will be fully supported by SPX in Australia and will be one of the most flexible cheese plants in the world by the middle of 2014 – again enabling manufacturing consolidation and improved efficiencies for increased sustainability.
SPX is fully committed to the dairy industry including edible fats and oils and cheese manufacturing. Its equipment and services are designed to deliver the latest technologies to provide flexible, efficient, high performing solutions that will help reduce production costs and improve profitability. Its Innovation Centres, global support teams and continued research and development into various areas of the dairy industry demonstrates its long-term commitment to continue to serve and offer real solutions with real customer benefits.
